Ta-da!
The initial idea came from a self-made video I saw by Francis and the Lights, where Francis had just self-made his video by throwing on the flashlight on his phone and recording his silhouette as he sang the song.
I showed that little thing to Adée, she dug it and we started trying to add to it on her final night in Cardiff before having to leave to head back to Sweden the following morning.
Read MoreOne-shot. Black and White. Slow-motion. That’s the whole thing.
Adée had a rough concept of what she wanted the video to be about; she wanted to talk about her sexuality and how people have just assumed the gaps in her personality that they don’t know about her.
People aren’t just black and white.
Read MoreThis time last year, I was laying on a hotel bedroom floor, checking every individual link on this website to make sure I hadn’t linked something to something that didn’t exist. And filling in the gaps with the bios I’d not had chance to write. That was in Stockholm, at 4am I’d finished the site and had to get up at 8am to catch a bus to Örebro to attend Live @ Heart festival with Elle Exxe, her manager Umong, and Andy - the greatest drummer in the world - whilst also figuring out how I was going to make the website/brand launch using the bus’ pretty choppy free WiFi and hotspotting my phone.
Read MoreI honestly can’t remember the specifics of when I met Mono.
I know it happened between January and March of 2018. In Melbourne. Most likely at Horse Bazaar for a Can I Kick It? event. But I can’t remember how we met, or if someone introduced us to each other.
I don’t even know if we said more than simple pleasantries to each other.
The man just appears on stage, hushes the crowd with ease and waits for the beat to begin.
Read More“Hey, I have this idea for something I wanna try out at Brighton,”
“Okay, cool!”
That’s pretty much how this video came about.
I’d been thinking about the idea of an EPK (Electronic Press Kit) video being something more experimental than just a self-indulgent trailer. I feel like it should be individual to the artist. Really encapsulate them visually, mentally, and audibly.
Read MoreLast summer, I was working on a documentary in St Albans about the topic of homelessness. It was a pretty eye-opening experience for reasons I expected, and reasons that would never have come to mind. But my favourite part of the summer-long experience, was meeting the people of Cardboard Citizens.
I documented their work over a two-week period with homeless participants as they worked to build a theatre performance for at the end of that fortnight. None of the participants had experience of performing in front of an audience before, so it was interesting watching Terry and Marc cultivate a team mentality in the room, help them push through the nerves of performing on-stage, and design and build the performance’s story from scratch in that time.
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